Strong’s G2229 · Greek

ē

Definition

assuredly

Etymology

an adverb of confirmation; perhaps intensive of G2228 (ἤ); used only (in the New Testament) before G3303 (μέν);

Where the KJV renders it

  • surely

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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